WWII Era Obituaries (non-military service)The place to collect memories of those who lived during the Second World War but did not serve. Subjects should have some relevance to the conflict.Thu, 22 Feb 2018 04:39:08 +0000Thu, 22 Feb 2018 04:39:08 +0000WWII Forumshttp://ww2f.com/forums/wwii-era-obituaries-non-military-service.137/
King Michael I of RomaniaSat, 09 Dec 2017 18:07:40 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/king-michael-i-of-romania.70392/
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Despite his decades spent in exile he tried on several occasions, following the collapse of communism, to return to his homeland as king but his efforts were always thwarted by the Romanian government.
The great-great grandson of Queen Victoria, Michael was born in the mountain...

King Michael I of Romania]]>1Benjamin ScheinkopfMon, 27 Nov 2017 14:54:44 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/benjamin-scheinkopf.70335/
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Much-loved Benjamin Scheinkopf - better known simply as 'Ben the Barber' - only retired when he 97.
Born into a Jewish family in Plonsk, Poland - the same town as Israeli founding father David Ben-Gurion - Ben was advised by his father to become a cobbler.
But his decision to pursue the art of barbering ultimately saved his life after his home was occupied by...

Benjamin Scheinkopf]]>1Jeannie de ClarensSun, 03 Sep 2017 14:15:00 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/jeannie-de-clarens.70004/
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The death was confirmed by her son, Pascal.
In 1943 Jeannie Rousseau, as she was then known, was an interpreter in Paris for an association of French businessmen, representing their interests and helping...

Jeannie de Clarens]]>Sumiteru TaniguchiThu, 31 Aug 2017 02:11:04 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/sumiteru-taniguchi.69960/
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Sumiteru Taniguchi, then 16, had been delivering mail on his newspaper route when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on August 9, 1945.
Taniguchi survived, but suffered terrible burns on his back and arms, and later became a prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner.
In January 1946, a U.S. Marine photographer visited a hospital for survivor, and took a...

Sumiteru Taniguchi]]>Yisrael KristalSat, 12 Aug 2017 01:31:26 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/yisrael-kristal.69903/
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Yisrael Kristal, who made it into the Guinness World Records book as the world's oldest man last year, died today a month before his 114th birthday.
He survived Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration camp where more than one million people were killed, but tragically lost his first wife and two children in the war.
By the time the camp was liberated, he weighed just 81 lbs (37kgs).
Kristal, originally...

Yisrael Kristal]]>George E. BriaMon, 20 Mar 2017 01:07:01 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/george-e-bria.68777/
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Bria died at a New York hospital after his health had declined for a time, said his daughter, Judy Storey.
As a young reporter, Bria bore witness to Benito Mussolini's death and covered the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
Later, as a senior...

George E. Bria]]>Susan JonesSat, 11 Feb 2017 13:56:02 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/susan-jones.59074/
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Former factory girl Susan Jones was known to residents in Failsworth as ‘Rosie the Riveter’ - after the woman depicted in the famous US war poster.

She was among the hundreds of local woman who sweated long hours in unforgiving circumstances to support the British war effort.

Relatives of the ever-cheerful pensioner,...

Susan Jones]]>Brunhilde PomselTue, 31 Jan 2017 18:37:19 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/brunhilde-pomsel.58988/
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Her job brought her into close contact with Goebbels - one of the worst war criminals of the 20th century.
She was one of the last surviving members of staff from the Nazi hierarchy, who only spoke about her experience later in life.
In a recent documentary, she said she had known nothing of the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
In "A German Life", which was released...

Brunhilde Pomsel]]>2Raoul WallenbergTue, 01 Nov 2016 07:55:41 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/raoul-wallenberg.58484/
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"Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped thousands of Hungarian Jews to escape Nazi mass murder in World War Two, has been formally pronounced dead by Sweden's Tax Agency.
He was arrested by Soviet forces in Hungary in 1945 and disappeared. He is thought to have died in a Soviet prison, but his fate remains a mystery.
Thousands of Jews escaped deportation to Auschwitz because Wallenberg gave them Swedish...

Raoul Wallenberg]]>1Dario FoMon, 17 Oct 2016 00:27:38 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/dario-fo.58388/
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In October 1997, when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature – the first Italian playwright to be chosen for the award since Luigi Pirandello in 1934 – the Swedish Academy described Fo as one “who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging...

Dario Fo]]>Wolfgang SuschitszkyMon, 10 Oct 2016 00:25:56 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/wolfgang-suschitszky.58363/
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His naturalistic approach gave the film its brooding documentary feel, Suschitzky lighting the face of Michael Caine (starring as Jack Carter) in a cinema verité style to emphasise the cobra-lidded eyes and the cold, calculating nature of Caine’s...

Wolfgang Suschitszky]]>Max MannheimerSat, 24 Sep 2016 18:28:28 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/max-mannheimer.58267/
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The German chancellor met Max Mannheimer in May last year as part of a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the closing of Dachau concentration camp.
Her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said on Twitter that she was mourning his death, adding that 'we owe him gratitude.'
Mannheimer spent two years being held in different death camps, including...

The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92.Greta Zimmer Friedman's son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Va. She died from complications of old age, he said.Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse's uniform on Aug. 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered. People spilled out into the streets from...

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Greta Zimmer Friedman, Times Square Kiss, dies at 92]]>1Lord RixMon, 22 Aug 2016 00:26:45 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/lord-rix.58066/
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In 1960, when he was appointed first lieutenant of Dreadnought, there were no nuclear-qualified submariners, and Squires, two doctors, a constructor officer and Dreadnought’s future captain, Peter Samborne, began their training in the newly created nuclear physics department of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

Vivean Gray]]>Gerard NoelMon, 01 Aug 2016 00:50:31 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/gerard-noel.57930/
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As Catholicism attempted far-reaching reforms in its teachings and structure in the wake of the landmark Second Vatican Council (1962-65), Noel was both commentator and counsellor in rapidly changing times, writing a string of...

Gerard Noel]]>Beatrice de CardiMon, 11 Jul 2016 09:05:52 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/beatrice-de-cardi.57801/
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I am not a woman or a man when I am working in the Gulf or anywhere else. I am a professional and they have always accepted that
Beatrice de Cardi
Described by the historian Michael...

Beatrice de Cardi]]>1Owen HolderSun, 10 Jul 2016 23:58:19 +0000http://ww2f.com/threads/owen-holder.57799/
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He was born in Southgate, north London, on March 18 1921. After the death of his father when Owen was eight, he was sent to a charity school for fatherless children, Reedham Orphanage in Purley, Surrey, which he left at 14. Having decided to educate himself, he became a great reader and a prodigious source of facts and stories.

After school he moved to London where he found work as an office boy with...